Fluent in spoken and written Japanese, Frederik L. Schodt is an author, interpreter, and translator who has written extensively on Japanese culture and Japan-U.S. relations. His classic Manga! Manga! introduced the English-speaking world to Japanese comics culture.
6 Ebooks von Frederik L. Schodt
Frederik L. Schodt: The Astro Boy Essays
The pioneering genius of Japan’s “God of Comics, ” Osamu Tezuka (1928–89), is examined through his life’s masterwork: Tetsuwan Atomu, also known as Mighty Atom or Astro …
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€13.99
Frederik L. Schodt: Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe
‚Frederik L. Schodt has at long last unveiled the fascinating story of ‚Professor Risley.‘ Circus scholars, history buffs, and anyone with an ounce of curiosity should be grateful to him.’—Dominiqu …
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€28.99
Frederik L. Schodt: Native American in the Land of the Shogun
How Japan, after 250 years of self–imposed isolation, began the process of modernization is in part the story of Ranald Mac Donald. In 1848 this half-Scot, half-Chinook adventurer from the Pacific …
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€16.99
Frederik L. Schodt: Dreamland Japan
This landmark book, first published at the height of the manga boom, is offered in a hardcover collector’s edition with a new foreword and afterword. Frederik L. Schodt looks at the classic …
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€16.99
Frederik L. Schodt: My Heart Sutra
The Heart Sutra is the most widely read, chanted, and copied text in East Asian Buddhism. Here Frederik L. Schodt explores his lifelong fascination with the sutra: its mesmerizing mantra, its ancient …
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€10.99
Toshio Ban: The Osamu Tezuka Story
This graphic-format biography of Osamu Tezuka—Japan’s ‚God of Manga’—looks at one of the twentieth century’s great creative artists (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack). It is also an anec …
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€21.99
